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The amino-terminal domain of pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase is dispensable in vitro but required for in vivo activity.
FEBS letters - 10 Jul 2007
Herring Stephanie, Ambrogelly Alexandre, Gundllapalli Sarath, O'Donoghue Patrick, Polycarpo Carla R, Söll Dieter
Abstract excerpt
Pyrrolysine (Pyl) is co-translationally inserted into a subset of proteins in the Methanosarcinaceae and in Desulfitobacterium hafniense programmed by an in-frame UAG stop codon. Suppression of this UAG codon is mediated by the Pyl amber suppressor tRNA, tRNA(Pyl), which is aminoacylated with Pyl by pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase (PylRS). We compared the behavior of several archaeal and bacterial PylRS enzymes...
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